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============================================================ *** A Special Offer from O'Reilly *** Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations--20% Off Get 20% off the list price when you buy O'Reilly's recently released "Beyond Contact" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/alien/). In this book, author Brian McConnell examines the science and technology behind the search for intelligent life in space, from the physics of inter-stellar laser and radio communication to information theory and linguistics. Offer valid through the oreilly.com shopping cart, or by calling O'Reilly Customer Service at 1-800-998-9938. Use the following code: W1EP01. Expires October 8, 2001. ============================================================ Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large. First things first: congratulations are due to O'Reilly editor and Perl author, programmer and developer extraordinaire, Nathan Torkington, who (presumably with some involvement from his wife, Jenine) is now the proud father of William *and* Aurelia Rose Torkington, 8lb 1oz, 21 inches and two days old. Wow. IBM DeveloperWorks is a fantastic source of Linux and Open Source articles, and while browsing recently I found this one. It's all about how to use Perl to read in and write out Excel spreadsheet files. If you have to deal with Office applications, check it out: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pexcel/ Ask Bjorn Hansen, the man you should thank every time you get mail from a perl.org list, has this week started a petition to ask Apple to release Perl bindings to their Cocoa application framework library for OS X. If you'd be interested in developing applications for OS X in Perl, you'd better sign up now: http://dev.perl.org/macosx/ I didn't know whether this was intended to be filed in the "and finally..." joke bin, but that's where it ended up: according to silicon.com, Perl is going to make Microsoft .NET insecure. I think they might have got that one the wrong way around: http://www.silicon.com/p47858 * What's new on perl.com Ahbijit Menon-Sen and Artur Bergman are still in the process of preparing a perl5-porters summary for you, which we hope to be able to bring you shortly. However, at long last, we present Larry's Third Apocalypse, which deals with the operator semantics for Perl 6. As you might expect, the majority of them have remained unchanged from Perl 5, but there are some interesting surprises. And, of course, you'll have to read on to see what the concatenation operator is going to look like... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html An Exegesis will follow on Friday. Enjoy, SC *** Featured Articles *** Apocalypse 3: Operators Larry Wall brings us the next installment in the unfolding of Perl 6's design. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html *** Asymmetric Cryptography in Perl Last month, we had an article from Abhijit Menon-Sen about symmetric cryptography; this month, Vipul and Benjamin take us on a tour of its more advanced cousin, asymmetric cryptography. This introductory article is the first in a three-part series. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/26/crypto1.html *** Parrot : Some Assembly Required Last week, the first version of the Parrot assembler and virtual machine was released; since then, we've seen a flurry of activity and patches to it. Simon Cozens tells us all about what Parrot is, how it relates to Perl 6, how to write in Parrot assembler, and how to get involved in developing and improving Parrot. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/18/parrot.html *** wxPerl: Another GUI for Perl Jouke Visse brings us a new tutorial on how to use wxPerl to create good-looking GUIs for Perl programs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies. XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the Inside Out. ONLamp.com http://onlamp.com O'Reilly Network's High-Performance Web Development Site. O'Reilly and Associates http://www.oreilly.com/ O'Reilly computer books, software, and online publishing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Please make certain to unsubscribe from the email address at which you receive this message For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org